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28 July 2012 « Precise Pangolin » release

Starting over a new repository

Dropped support for i386 architecture

Dropped the server repository

Additions ...

uade 2.13

uade-git 2.13.20110917

Introduction

This project aims to provide packages for the Ubuntu Linux
distribution which are not available through Ubuntu itself. These packages have
the only purpose of providing up-to-date software (mainly for desktop usage) to the users of the
stable release of Ubuntu Linux.

The repository provided here is not a substitute of the official packages in any way. It is just
a personal interest I have about how to make packages the right way and make them available to
people who wish to use software not available on the main distribution and not yet available on
the backports tree. This repository is a complement to the official packages.

I always do my best to provide non intrusive and correctly backported packages. The software available
here is targeted to the stable release Precise Pangolin
and is from one of the following sources:

From the upcoming release Quantal Quetzal

From the Debian GNU/Linux unstable release SID if the package does not exist anywhere within Ubuntu

From unofficial, user or community driven repositories

From vanilla sources if no package exist anywhere I would be aware of

Can these packages break my Ubuntu

Well, there's always a risk eventhough it is very limited. These packages are tested and used
everyday by lots of people (according to traffic stats), myself included and I haven't received
a single complain yet. Anyway, I'm just the packager of the software, not the developper and
if it fails to work properly on your system, there's little I can do to fix it.

On the matter of upgrade/dist-upgrade, there's nothing to worry about. The extension I add to
the packages version is known to be APT compliant. Everything after the tilda sign (~) is ignored
by APT for versioning considerations. So, when you dist-uprade to a new version of Ubuntu, you
fall under one of these conditions :

The new package have a better versionAPT will replace the package from this repository with the one supplied by the
new Ubuntu release, you will get a more up to date package

The new package have the same version
APT will NOT replace the package from this repository and everything stays as it was before

The new package have a lesser version
APT will NOT replace the package from this repository and everything stays as it was before,
you keep a more up to date package

Why is the server so slow and lots of timeouts

This repository is hosted on an ISP webpages space. This is a strict minimal service
with no warranty of any kind. This does the job but it's slow and the server is mutualised
with many other sites from other customers.

Import signing key into APT

Signing is available to ensure that you download packages I really made myself
The key finger print is :

0DDB 9651 40FC 8BBD 31F9 98D3 8CC6 8B39 7E2E 4741

You have to download the Morgoth signing key,
import it into APT trusted repositories database by issuing the following
command in a shell (terminal) :